In an interview with CNN this weekend, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized (kind of/sort of/not really) for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

“I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong,” Blair said, somehow with a straight face.

“…The program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought, so I can apologize for that…”

“I can also apologize, by the way, for some of the mistakes in planning and certainly our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you remove the regime… But I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam.”

He went on to admit that there are “elements of truth” to the statement that the rise of ISIS can be directly attributed to the invasion of Iraq.

The leftwing movement of criticism of Israel is getting more and more mainstream by the second. Everyone is walking the path; they’re just getting there a little later. The Washington Post, a hotbed of neoconservative ideas for the last 15 years, has another article harshly critical of Israel today, written by an Israeli. And guess what: that article along with yesterday’s article by the two prestige Jewish academics calling for boycott of Israel are the two “most-read” articles on the Post list this morning!

Some people can really only take so much of the political process before they give up on the system entirely.This is especially true in modern times, where every candidate is pro-war and pro-establishment. Obama was the last hope for many people who thought a politician could change things, but when Obama brought more of the same, some people became awake to the reality that politicians are usually con artists and that the entire political system is a scam.

Legendary Pop star Cher has tweeted about Trump, announcing "Never thought I'd Say...
Donald Trump is a Giant Among Gop front runners!!
cruz=devil
rubio=RAGE AGAINST WOMEN
carson=JUST TELL ME WHY!?

She also seems to have a particular disdain for Ben Carson, the black neocon Republican candidate- saying he had no credibility in business, foreign policy, or of any kind. She adds "OH YEAH..HE SAYS DISGUSTING THINGS IN A MR ROGERS VOICE."
Cher also included the fact that she recently saw "fighter" Hillary Clinton, noting it's not over till it's over.' "SAW THE OLD HILLARY 4 1ST TIME IN CAMPAIGN.4GOT WHAT A FIGHTER SHE IS.HER IDEA RE STARTING NEW VERSION NRA IS GENUIS."

This is worth a watch. It begins with W's poppy, George H. W. Bush, saying "we've had sex" when referring to his "partner" Ronald Reagan. An unbelievable and amusing collection, very well put together.

Saudi prince and four others were detained on Monday in Lebanon in the largest drug bust in the history of the Beirut airport, a security source said. Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four others were detained by airport security while allegedly “attempting to smuggle about two tons of Captagon pills and some cocaine,” a security source told AFP.

A woman claiming to be the victim of a “VIP pedophile ring”, which involved three former prime ministers, has alleged she was prostituted to “pedophile parties” at Parliament House in Canberra. Speaking to media in Sydney, Fiona Barnett detailed her alleged abuse by the alleged elite pedophile ring 40 years ago.

First off, cops aren’t being targeted with any more regularity than they’ve ever been. In fact, the last time cops were “targeted” at a level anyone rational would consider to be a problem was during Prohibition, nearly 100 years ago. (The second spike is due to another round of prohibition — the declaration of the “War on Drugs” by President Richard Nixon.)

Being accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can mean staying home for a year or more and still getting paid. At least 88 DHS workers have been on administrative leave pending resolution of claims against them, during which the agency paid out $1.8 million in salaries, according the office of Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Four workers had been on leave for three years or more with another 17 on leave for two years or more, according to The Washington Post.

It is thus, reluctantly but resolutely, that we are refusing to travel to Israel, boycotting products produced there and calling on our universities to divest and our elected representatives to withdraw aid to Israel. Until Israel seriously engages with a peace process that either establishes a sovereign Palestinian state or grants full democratic citizenship to Palestinians living in a single state

Europe and money are two of the big themes of Blair Inc., a conscientious effort by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan to uncover the New Labour leader’s activities post No. 10: Europe because the authors claim that Blair still longs for a world role, one the European presidency would provide; and money because they say he has made rather a lot of it since 2007.

It was an old American friend who first alerted me to the Blair family’s fondness for the folding stuff. After seeing Cherie being interviewed on US TV soon after Tony became Labour leader, she told me: ‘My mother had a phrase for people like her – “She’ll go grasping into the grave”.’ Twenty years later, the authors of Blair Inc. tell us that the couple now own 36 properties. Their portfolio includes the former Bucks home of Sir John Gielgud that the couple acquired for a reported £4m in 2008 as a sort of personal Chequers. As far as Beckett, Hencke and Kochan can establish, given the complexity and secrecy that surrounds his affairs, Blair himself is now worth around £60m.

Doesn't this tell us all we need to know about Ben Carson?

So now here we are: the new Tsipras government has just resolved two of its major problems: that of the public debt and the one represented by the ex-president of the Greek Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou. How has it managed to bring off this feat? Simple! By erasing from the official site of the Greek Parliament – for all time – everything that could recall Zoe Konstantopoulou and her initiatives during her brief presidency, including the Commission for the Truth of the Public Debt.

William Kristol, co-founder of the notorious 'Project for the New American Century' and signatory of the 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' document which called for a 'New Pearl Harbor' nine months before 9/11/01, has a dream ticket for the 2016 presidential race. Kristol registered the domain name CheneyCotton2016.com on 9/8/15, coincidentally only three days before the fourteenth anniversary 9/11. Freshman Senator Tom Cotton just returned from Israel and a personal meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu nine days ago. Kristol, meanwhile, has been bashing Donald Trump and shilling for Ben Carson for president. This is identical to the way Kristol bashed Pat Buchanan in the 1990s while supporting his college roommmate Alen Keyes, another black neocon Republican candidate who is very similar to Ben Carson.

Kinda hard to believe she said it to begin with, but not only did she say it, she said it on the national news.

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii’s second congressional district and member of the Armed Services Committee, straight up told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that there’s a bigger issue in Syria than a potential clash in the country’s crowded skies:

“The U.S. and the CIA are working to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad…

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Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett boasted, “I have killed lots of Arabs (Palestinians) in my life – and there is no problem with that.”.......

A nameless hero within the US intelligence community has liberated a stash of classified intelligence documents to The Intercept. These documents reveal the true nature of the American aerial automated murder program. Documents, analysis, slides and other visuals were released by the intercept in The Drone Papers.

The concept of earning interest on money in the bank is so deeply ingrained into economic life that few people even know that the opposite can happen too: Banks can takea percentage of cash from your account in the form of negative interest rates, under certain conditions. Normally, this doesn't happen. Banks want your cash, and pay you interest on it, because the more deposits they have, the more they can lend it to others who pay them even more on their investments.

Arthur & the Jews The controversy over freedom of speech By Arthur Topham, Publisher & Editor RadicalPress.com

What will be on trial from October 26th to November 6th is the legal entitlement of all Canadians to exercise their Constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, both on and off the Internet. The outcome of the trial will determine whether or not Canada is, in fact, a truly open and free democracy or a nation whose sovereignty and freedom has been compromised by the wilful, premeditated actions of foreign lobbyists inimical to the country as a whole. In other words Freedom of Speech will be on trial. Please, take a moment to donate to for our legal defense

The projected national counter-terrorism database could include photos pulled from social media sites, government officials have told Senate estimates ?Images harvested from social media sites such as Facebook could be part of the latest counter-terrorism measures, the attorney general’s department has confirmed. In September, the justice minister, Michael Keenan, announced that the federal government would spend $18.5m to develop the national facial biometric matching capability, known simply as “the capability”.

Insiders and internal documents from the European Central Bank show how powerful financial interests are eroding workers rights in the heart of Europe

Another memorable exchange on Tuesday came when CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Sanders – who has described himself as a “democratic socialist” – if he considered himself a capitalist. (Sanders said "no".)

The Jews did 911 to start the "war on terror" (war on Muslim countries needed by the Jews for Greater Israel) to begin the "Greater Israel" project.

Graham Peebles examines the devastating effects – and abject failure – of Britain’s neo-liberal programme to eliminate the budget deficit, and argues that what is needed is an approach that transcends ideologies and places the principle of sharing at its heart.

I walked a 1/4 mile of train track in central Florida recently, and found that the tracks in many spots are not connected properly to the railroad ties, and some not at all. And these tracks run past houses. The tracks date back to the 1940’s. Perhaps our infrastructure should be a bigger priority than who we are going to bomb next, or what new weapon we can build.

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Colorado literally doesn’t know what to do with all of the revenue from legalizing and taxing marijuana. The state has $66.1 million in excess tax revenue from recreational pot sales and the voters get to decide how it’s spent...

Over the next six months, Barcelona’s left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world. The main goal of the project, according to a council spokesperson, is to boost economic opportunities for local businesses and traders.

The idea is for local stores and residents to be able to exchange euros for the new currency at a one-to-one parity, and use it to purchase products and services at a discount or with other kinds of incentives. But it doesn’t end there: the new parallel currency may also be used to pay certain subsidies, taxes and local services such as public transport, reports El País. Municipal workers could also receive part of their salary in the new money.

During its investigation into misconduct and sexual harassment on the part of Drug Enforcement Administration agents, the Justice Department found that eight out 14 agents had wrongly received merit bonuses or time off ranging from $1,500 to nearly $32,000. Such rewards are in violation of the DEA’s own policy.

Walter Burien is the leading expert on Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs). Beginning in 1990, Walter began documenting how governments manipulate their books to hide public money, but reveal part of what they do in CAFRs. I discovered Walter’s work in 2012, read CAFRs for the state of California, the City of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County, and verified his information as correct. I document those CAFRs’ information here, along with the adventure of my California Assemblyperson and State Senator’s obfuscations and eventual official statements of, “No comment” when asked to verify what I found in the state CAFR. My 23-minute interview to explain my findings is the last video of this article. I found similar fraud in San Jose’s CAFR in 2015.